Yesterday was a busy day for me. I’m running a bit of a sleep deficit, because I cut my morning sleep short to run errands and started my evening sleep late to do the radio show. I’m current on replies to lots of comments. Today I have more errands to run and Zzzzzzs to catch.
Blog Talk Radio:
Yesterday Fred and Jed interviewed me on their radio show. I had a fine time and thank them for the opportunity. If you would like to hear the interview, you can at Fred and Jed.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:27 (average 4:58). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From NY Times: The House is scheduled to vote this week on a daft and destructive measure that — in the name of individual freedom — would repeal national energy efficiency standards for light bulbs enacted by Congress in 2007. Though utterly without merit, the bill stands a fighting chance in a legislative body where ideology now routinely trumps common sense.
The standards save an average of $200 per household per year.
From Think Progress: Three unnamed top U.S. officials told the New York Times that the U.S. intends to cut or suspend hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to Pakistan, underscoring a shifting administration view that the troubled nation is an unreliable counter-terror parter. The aid in question encompasses equipment, training, reimbursements for activities on the Afghan border, and direct security aid.
Finally! We have paid for an enemy for too long.
From Washington Post: A socially conservative group has apologized for including a passage about slavery in a pledge it asked the Republican candidates to sign as a prerequisite for the group’s endorsement in the presidential race.
No comparable apology has come from Batsh*t Bachmann, who wholeheartedly endorsed the offending passage at the same time she signed the pledge.
Cartoon:
18 Responses to “Open Thread–7/10/2011”
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$20 says this was proposed by Bachmann. She thinks they’re ‘unsafe’. No you dingbat, they are the same florescent bulbs that were in your Grandmother’s kitchen 40 years ago, but just in a different shape, you idiot. Congress has nothing better to do than repeal lightbulbs – really? 🙄
That’s a bet I won’t take.
Finally! We have paid for an enemy for too long.
Indeed. Maybe Obama has finally started listening to India, which (as the main target of terror attacks originating in Pakistan) has understood Pakistan for a long time.
Excellent point, Infidel. The fence between those two is not a good one for the US to straddle.
Finally! This should be Pakistan’s punishment for letting OBL live right under their noses! 🙄
It may well be just that.
As they should apologize. Don’t expect an apology from Bachmann – she won’t do it and she’ll go on continuing to think it was the right thing to do. Notice, when she gives a speech that there are no details of what she’s going to do in there? That’s because a) she has no idea, except to turn this country into a theocracy and b) the last time (and only time she lost an election) she said what she was going to do, she was defeated. So now, she only does a bunch of moral jumping up and down, feeding the theocrats what they want to hear, but no policy descriptions. And you won’t here any out of her – ever – even when she’s directly confronted because she knows nothing about the world, economy or anything else for that matter. She’ll just dodge the question like she did in that Chris Matthew’s interview a while ago.
If anything, she might criticize their apology.
Thanks for Fed & Jed’s link. I just listened and enjoyed it. You and Margaret were both great.
5:12 I suck!!!
That little light bulb will NEVER go on over Bachmann’s head. She has no ideas except bad ones.
No Patty, 14 seconds slower than the average is not sucking!
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Jerry
Jerry is right, Patty! You can tell because the little light bulb went on over his head.
….liked the cartoon! Cats are good at holding down things! 😈
Thanks Johnny.
To brighten your day, some updates on Murdoch’s expanding problems as reported by the UK press.
[1] Consensus is developing that Murdoch is working to cover-up a good deal of even worse news
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/08/news-corp-murdoch-news-of-the-world-closure
[2] The bad news may be extending to our shores via the publisher of the Wall Street Journal
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/the-battle-of-wapping-mk-ii-2310041.html
Excellent, Nameless.
3:56 I am 61 out of 191 (319). Obviously being tired does not affect your puzzle solving.
Jerry, it does if I’m groggy too.
Another challenge for you today, but dogs like you.